Clark Gregg likes me! He really likes me!
Or, you know. He at least likes a thing I made, and that’s pretty much the same thing.
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Recycling Costumes
Before I started Storied Threads, I sometimes worked as a costume designer for renaissance faires. It’s not a job I have time for anymore — Storied Threads keeps me plenty busy enough! So it’s interesting, now, to vend at a show I used to design, and see pieces I made for specific characters getting re-used in new ways. Sometimes they’re predictable — a knight’s surcoat getting re-used, just on a different knight, for instance. And sometimes, less so.
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Avengers, Assemble!
I am, to borrow a phrase from Tom Hiddleston,uncontrollably excited for theAvengers DVD and Blu-Ray release on September 25. This movie made me so happy when I saw it opening weekend that I then proceeded to see it in the theater — I kid you not — four more times. This is an unprecedented feat of movie-going for me, and while I’m not precisely PROUD of it…I do own the fact that it happened.
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Tapping new fandoms
It’s no secret that business here at Storied Threads really took off when I started tapping into pop culture and fandoms. It started last spring, when I debuted the Doctor Who Awareness Ribbon patch, and has simply grown exponentially from there. At CTRF last fall, I had a handful of Doctor Who patches, which sold so fast I couldn’t keep them in stock. And by this year’s Robin Hood show in May, I had so many Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, and even Avengers patches that they each got their own section of the tent to be displayed in.
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